Improved school-desk



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l18878889. Patented Aprn 14, 1888.

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TO vALL WHOM IT MAY ONCERN:

Be it known that I, EDWARD I. STEARNS, ofvCambridge, in the' county of Dorchester, in the State of Maryland, have invented a new and improved School-Desk; and I do hereby declare that the following is n. full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference bein'g had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification,

` Figures 1, 2, and 3 are perspeetivelviive, and

Figures '4, 5, and 6 corresponding vertical sections through the middle of the desk and seat.

'Corresponding letters indicate corresponding parts in the several figures;

The object ot' my invention is to promote comfort, convenience, and order, in the school-room, by doing away lvvitlLthe continual opening and shutting, and not unfreqlient slamming,of desk-lids during school-hours, whether bona fide, 'for the purpose of'getting ont books, or, under pretext thereof, for the clandestine eating of apples andnuts, orvother transgression of the xules oi goed order.

' To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its 4construction and operation. 'e

The desk D is an oblong rectangular box, say, for a single desk, twenty inches or two feet long, one foot wide, and six or seven inches deep, supported on legs or uprights in any of the usual ways. L is the lid,r

attached to the desk by the hinges H on theside nearest the seat S, insteadof, as in the usual way, on or near the side farthest from it. IB B are brackets or cleats, for strengthening the lid, 'and supporting it in the proper position when open, the ends, e, ofthe brackets making, for this latterpurpose, an angle of about seventy-five degrees with the surface of the lid.

Figs. 1 and 4 represent `the desk with the lidshut; figs. 2 and 5, with the lid partially open; figs. 3 and G, with the lid entirely open for use, and supported in position by the bracket-s or cleats.

I claim a school-desk, with the lid opening towards the seat and occupant, and supported in position, when open, by the cleats B, or other suitablede'vice, so that what is the under side of thc lid when shut is the upperl side, for the books to rest upon,'when open,substantiu.lly as above described.

EDWARD I. STEARNS.

Witnesses:

JAS. L. BRYAN, J. W. K'EEBLE. 

